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Hi all,

It was International Women's Day yesterday together with this week's link review is to a substantial amount a reflection of that-celebrating woman mortal achievements, writers & researchers-but also highlighting some of the many challenges that withal forestall total equality together with achievement of women's total potential to live fulfilled.

Development news: IWD; #AidToo & Save The Children; gender gaps inwards non-profits; why did vehement crimes drib inwards Sao Paulo? The genocide Obama didn't run into coming; Mongolian fossil oil revenue shenanigans; the political economic scheme of refugee registration inwards Uganda; Yazidi women & journalism ethics; equestrians inwards Lubumbashi; academics beloved Black Panther; Ethiopia's daughter band coming of age; novel satirical documentary on life within the UN; intermediaries inwards humanitarian journalism.

Our digital lives: Male-dominated media corporations; Steven Pinker, the PowerPoint philosopher.

Publications: Fake tidings & the charity sector; gender & mobile technology; framing representations of development.

Academia: Grant application review lottery; tracking students on campus; a novel Africa Centre for the Study of the United States of America of America inwards South Africa; feedback for students alongside 'white names'.

Enjoy!

New from aidnography
Oxfam, Republic of Haiti & the assistance industry's #MeToo moment-a curated bibliography
Last update: 5 March 07:15 EST; in that location are at nowadays to a greater extent than than 110 resources!
For the fourth dimension being, this bibliography volition non live updated anymore.
The scrap has branched out inwards so many unlike directions since the master copy scandal broke that I desire to maintain this thread to a greater extent than narrowly nigh the Oxfam scandal together with how media the assistance manufacture responded to it.
Development news


'You demand to take heed us': over 1,000 woman mortal assistance workers urge reform inwards opened upwards letter
We enquire for 3 substitution reforms to shift the patriarchal bias inwards aid:
Trust women: organisations demand to bring activeness every bit presently every bit women study sexual harassment, exploitation together with abuse; allegations must live treated alongside priority together with urgency inwards their investigation; the dependent acre of a complaint of this nature must live at nowadays suspended or removed from their topographic point of powerfulness together with reach of vulnerable women together with girls.
Listen: foster a civilization where whistleblowing is welcome together with prophylactic - the way to win dorsum trust of donors, the world together with the communities nosotros locomote alongside is to live honest nigh abuses of powerfulness together with acquire from disclosures. Sexual harassment, exploitation together with abuse should no longer have got to live discussed inwards hushed tones inwards our offices.
Deeds non words: We demand effective leadership, commitment to activeness together with access to resources. It is non plenty to develop novel policies which are never implemented or funded – alongside the correct tools nosotros tin terminate impunity at all levels inwards the sector.
Rebecca Ratcliffe for The Guardian continues to embrace the developments of #AidToo.

Save the Children whistleblowers speak out
Brie adds: ‘We were so grateful when our one-time senior colleague Faiza Shaheen also spoke out’ – she is so far the only other one-time staff fellow member to utter openly on idiot box nigh mistreatment – ‘but nosotros also deeply sympathise why some of our colleagues experience unable to say anything.’
Finding the courage to locomote world did non outcome straight away inwards the media roofing their story. Some were every bit good closed to some of the men involved: ‘I wrote to a powerful woman mortal editor whose recent positioning I really admired. She never replied,’ explains Alexia. Others, Alexia together with Brie say, were every bit good frightened of beingness taken to courtroom past times some of those they were challenging.
‘But #MeToo has changed everything,’ notes Brie. ‘And nosotros just refused to halt trying.’
(...)
Pepper de Caires together with O’Keefe emphasize that they are non the only or fifty-fifty the worst affected. They are clear that they are only ii people, who tumble out to live to a greater extent than visible than others, within a much larger group, forming bonds of solidarity together with alliance alongside women across the world. ‘The fountain of back upwards we’ve had from colleagues withal every bit good afraid to come upwards frontward has been overwhelming. It’s what keeps us going,’ says O’Keefe.
Ben Phillips for the New Internationalist alongside of import reflections on how to enable whistle blowing together with the importance of the #AidToo movement.

Save the Children 'failed' to bargain alongside women's complaints
Sir Alan is described every bit saying, "the best way to protect the organisation from reputational adventure is non to allow the organisational response acquire disproportionate".
Manveen Rana & Laura Lea for BBC News alongside to a greater extent than insights into the Save The Children allegations.

Opinion: Why nosotros can’t split sexism from racism inwards the humanitarian together with evolution sector
For 1 brief second, I asked myself questions nigh whether I was over-thinking, over-analyzing, together with generalizing? Or missing the indicate entirely? Or all of the aforementioned? For 1 minute, I wanted to render to my quiet on this matter. Maybe I was just patently incorrect together with my lens was clouded past times my needlelike sense developed from beingness the only dark expatriate representing Oxfam inwards the room.
I oft wondered nigh the presumptuousness of assistance organizations proclaiming that somehow they could “build dorsum better” inwards Haiti? What did that mean? How do yous gear upwards history when in that location was almost no understanding of the cultural together with social constructs that gave nascency to this isle nation together with its topographic point inwards Caribbean Area history? Republic of Haiti is of import to the psyche of the Caribbean Area despite all the problems, because the Haitian state of war of liberation stands every bit a defining minute inwards Caribbean Area history. Haitians stand upwards for that all of our enslaved ancestors chose together with fought for liberation over bondage.
Angela Bruce-Raeburn for DevEx on the intersectionality of gender, race, bird & ,ore of #AidToo.

Assessing the Gender Gap at Nonprofits inwards Global Development
But if these numbers broadly grip up, they suggest US institutions involved inwards international evolution aren’t sufficiently practicing what they preach when it comes to the importance of multifariousness together with equality to outcomes—and they are less effective every bit a result. More (and to a greater extent than fairly remunerated) women inwards nonprofit leadership volition alter what the sector does for the better.
Charles Kenny & Tanvi Jaluka for CGDev boot off an of import scrap around gender (pay) gaps inwards the #globaldev industry.

Bad apples vs practiced eggs
So the ‘sacrifice’ of our assistance locomote together with the powerfulness nosotros wield together with the powerful self-belief inwards our goodness make people who are inclined to believe that it is OK to engage inwards what nosotros know is incorrect for others. This is the notion of privilege, a discussion which, every bit the Economist points out, defines a ‘private law’.
I pray for the pendulum, that these together with other reflections on the grayness do non dampen the dark together with white fervor aiming to exorcise the bad apples (sexual cowboys together with others) together with the civilization of credence that has empowered them for so long. I also pray nosotros are non 1 major earthquake away from the status quo snapping back.
Marc DuBois for Humanicontrarian on #AidToo.

Introducing OkayAfrica's 100 Women 2018 List
These women were non only handpicked for their utter excellence; nosotros gauged their impact together with influence, together with this year, nosotros hone inwards on the factor of community building. It is 1 shape of admirable triumph to force oneself from the rubble, out of unfavorable circumstance, away from persecution, abuse, war... It is something else together with altogether superhuman to run dorsum into the settling dust to salve others, inwards their communities, their countries, their continent together with the world.
In short, they are superheroes. No, non from Wakanda. But from Lagos, Somalia together with Sierra Leone, Botswana, Dakar together with Nairobi to squall a few. We at OkayAfrica are honored to uplift them together with add together to the growing number of collective 100 Women honorees for a get that concluding yr successfully reached 72 1000000 people. 72 MILLION. And each of those people received the same message:
African women are no longer requesting seats at the table. You mightiness desire to run into nigh getting a topographic point at ours.
Violent criminal offense inwards São Paulo has dropped dramatically. Is this why?
So what happened?
There are many competing explanations for why São Paulo registered such monumental improvements inwards safety. For example, some social scientists believe that the murder drib coincides alongside a decline inwards the number of immature men together with falling unemployment. Others say it has to a greater extent than to do alongside tighter controls on access to alcohol together with firearms. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few researchers believe the drib is due to the ascendence of a unmarried gang – the PCC – that imposed its ain create of criminal order, a form of Pax Mafiosa.
Whatever the explanation, the city’s groovy criminal offense drib does non have much international attention.
Robert Muggah & Ilona Szabó de Carvalho for the World Economic Forum alongside a fascinating instance study nigh 'complexity', non-linearity together with how measurement together with attributing deportment alter is difficult.

Following mining together with fossil oil taxation payments downwardly the rabbit hole
Between the convoluted ownership structures together with dead-ends created past times corporate confidentiality, next the chain of responsibleness from the projection to the supposed ultimate beneficiaries – citizens – is rarely straightforward. But Dutch non-profit Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) set out to follow the trail downwardly the rabbit hole anyway. They allege inwards a recent study that the Canadian fellowship behind Mongolia’s Oyu Tolgoi copper mine may have got taken wages of preferential merchandise agreements to minimize its taxation payments to Mongolia together with Canada past times every bit much every bit $700 million.
Sarah McNeal for Oxfam America alongside an of import reminder yet over again that 'aid' is only a minor share of the global money that could assist countries inwards their evolution together with that taxation avoidance is withal live together with kicking!

The Genocide the U.S. Didn’t See Coming
More than a yr later, every bit a novel moving ridge of violence has sent hundreds of thousands of Rohingya pouring into Bangladesh, one-time Obama direction officials have got been emailing 1 some other together with agonizing over what more—if anything—they could have got done to forestall the electrical flow crisis. Did they pay plenty attending to this 1 group? Were they blinded past times the positive changes inwards Myanmar together with naive nigh the impact on the Rohingya? Was it a error to elevator the sanctions?
Critics of U.S. policy, many of them human rights activists together with some one-time direction officials, blamed Rhodes, together with past times extension Obama, for non pushing hard plenty to protect the Rohingya. Rhodes was so invested inwards his narrative nigh engaging adversaries, these critics charged, that he failed to fully appreciate the Rohingya’s plight. Some one-time together with electrical flow U.S. officials I spoke to said they found it hard to indicate out problems alongside the “Oburma” legacy, especially inwards Obama’s 2nd term. “It was actually hard to number statements that suggested non all was good alongside the U.S. human relationship alongside Myanmar, fifty-fifty when it came to the Rohingya,” 1 U.S. official involved inwards the procedure said. “Everything had to sound positive.”
Nahal Toosi alongside a long-read for Politico Magazine on Myanmar, Rohingya & how violence, peradventure fifty-fifty a genocide, tin unfold alongside noesis together with powerlessness of political actors, including the Obama administration.

The Illegal Economy of Refugee Registration: Insights into the Ugandan Refugee Scandal #PublicAuthority
These together with similar stories demonstrate the veracity together with significance of 1 of CPAID’s guiding principles: that world ascendence inwards delicate contexts does non ever business office solely via official or normative means, but rather involves multiple actors together with institutions – both formal together with informal – operating nether their ain logics together with mechanisms concurrently alongside or alternate to to a greater extent than official channels. In the instance of the electrical flow Ugandan refugee scandal, the same world ascendence institutions formally employed to promote human rights, practiced governance, together with social jurist are also those engaged inwards opportunistic social together with economical exploitation, no affair how unofficially. Thus, inwards world ascendence situations such every bit this, nosotros non only run into how formal together with informal mechanisms of governance tin both play out through multiple alternate channels at the same time, but also how these varying governance forms tin involve the same actors engaging inwards competing strategies simultaneously.
Charles Ogeno & Ryan Joseph O’Byrne for Africa at LSE on the political economic scheme of refugee registration inwards Republic of Uganda together with the complexities of governance together with institutions.

Study: 85 percent of Yazidi women interviewed depict unethical journalism practices
Among other troubling details set out inwards the report, journalists relied on quid-pro-quo promises of money or aid, which led to a feeling of betrayal past times the women, who expected assist inwards return. (A journalist should never offering money to a source; the journalist wouldn’t know whether the source is beingness truthful, or whether the source is just maxim what he or she wants to hear. At the same time, inwards such situations, WMC Women Under Siege has witnessed together with experienced misunderstandings betwixt journalist together with source: Sources oft assume money or some form of assistance is share of the bargain when speaking to the media, when no such thing has been offered or promised.)
According to the report, fourscore percent of women expressed fright that if journalists disclosed details of their identity—including names, eyes, together with markings similar tattoos—it could Pb to retaliatory violence together with fifty-fifty croak of topographic point unit of measurement members inwards captivity. Some survivors told the authors that they’d witnessed, heard, or experienced ISIS identifying them through media reports together with so retaliating against relatives or other community members.
Annie Hylton for Women Under Siege presents a novel enquiry article that raises of import questions nigh how to 'represent' the 'voices' of women inwards journalism inwards an ethical, responsible way.


One of the world’s most elitist sports is incongruous inwards 1 of the poorest places on earth
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel generation of riders though facial expression naught similar the colonial-era equestrian enthusiasts who may have got ridden hither before. Most of them are giggling Congolese adolescents who bring the sport really seriously. Their parents are entrepreneurs who desire to gear upwards them for life beyond Congo, so many of them attend international schools together with skid easily betwixt French together with English. In Lubumbashi, in that location isn’t much to do beyond WhatsApp groups together with playing alongside Snapchat filters for the girls ages betwixt 8 together with xiii so these events are every bit much a social gathering for them, every bit it is an aspiration for their parents.
Lynsey Chutel for Quartz alongside an splendid story nigh novel money, aspirations together with inequalities inwards the DRC.

'By Ethiopians, for Ethiopians': daughter band Yegna milk shiver off Spice Girls tag
Back inwards Bahir Dar, the children, polite together with restrained during the performance, cheer together with clap wildly every bit the concert draws to a close. At the terminate of the gig, there’s a phase invasion. Unfazed, the band just bear on singing alongside the children.
Habtamu, 19, is total of praise for the project. “It helps girls live confident,” he says. “Teaching a immature daughter is changing a whole community.”
A decade from now, Yemesgen’s ideal vision is a “euphoric state” where Girl Effect does non exist, because the projection has succeeded together with given all girls inwards Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia a phonation together with agency. But he is realistic. “We know in that location is a lot of locomote to live done to acquire to that stage. In 10 years, I desire to facial expression dorsum together with run into in that location has been a change.”
Claudine Spera for The Guardian on music together with daughter powerfulness beyond Daily Mail snark together with Western labels.


Why Big Thinkers Can't Stop Talking About 'Black Panther'
Academics can't halt talking nigh Black Panther.
Sure, it's just a movie. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 superhero activeness movie.
But it's also a moving painting nigh an (admittedly fictional) African nation that, inwards the absence of colonialists, shaped itself through careful governance into a thriving society. And so on Twitter, inwards newspapers together with just nigh anywhere yous look, researchers, professors together with African leading lights are talking nigh Wakanda.
Joanne Lu for NPR Goats & Soda provides a practiced overview over how Black Panther is discussed inwards #globaldev circles.

Who are the intermediaries for international news? Five key questions answered
If the role of intermediaries for international tidings is beingness re-thought, it is of import to starting fourth dimension clarify just who these organisations are, what they are trying to do together with how they differ. To this end, the next explainer seeks to respond 5 key questions nigh the role of intermediaries for international news.
Martin Scott for Humanitarian Journalism alongside an overview over organizations that back upwards humanitarian journalism-and the challenges for all the actors involved.


Our digital lives
The media is a manful mortal line of piece of work organisation
The leadership of the 100 largest international media corporations is dominated past times men. Thirty corporations have got no women whatsoever inwards their overstep management, according to novel statistics compiled past times Nordicom.
Nordicom has mapped men together with women inwards CEO positions, positions inwards overstep direction mostly together with seats on boards of directors, based on the listing of the overstep 100 international media corporations published past times the Institute of Media together with Communications Policy inwards Germany. The outcome shows a pregnant lack of women amid the leadership of these corporations.
Maria Edström, Ulrika Facht, Greta Gober, Gunilla Ivarsson & Suzanne Moll nowadays novel information for Nordicom.

The PowerPoint Philosophe
Enlightenment Now has few of these qualities. It is a dogmatic volume that offers an oversimplified, excessively optimistic vision of human history together with a starkly technocratic prescription for the human future. It also gives readers the spectacle of a professor at 1 of the world’s groovy universities treating serious thinkers alongside populist contempt. The genre it most closely resembles, alongside its breezy style, bite-size chapters, together with impressive visuals, is non 18th-century philosophie so much every bit a genre inwards which Pinker has had copious experience: the TED Talk (although inwards this case, judging past times the book’s sound version, a TED Talk that lasts xx hours).
David A. Bell for The Nation takes on Steven Pinker's book.


Publications
The impact of mistaken tidings on the charity sector: New study from the International Broadcasting Trust
“Only strong communication strategies, built around clear inwardness values, volition ensure that NGOs are heard higher upwards the increasing stridency of competing voices on platforms similar Facebook together with Twitter. […]
Openness, accountability together with inclusivity are key. Regulation of social media platforms is really much on the political agenda, but so far they have got avoided the type of regulation that controls the mainstream media past times insisting on their role every bit intermediaries rather than publishers or tidings organisations.”
Carolina Are for Humanitarian News Research Network introduces a novel study past times the IBT. 

Gender, Mobile, together with Mobile Internet
This article shows the impact of “maintenance affordances” on women’s capabilities to usage mobile phones to Pb lives they value. Analysis of information from a qualitative study of mobile telephone usage past times thirty immature low-income women—including fifteen who had no access to the Internet other than through their mobile phones—shows how maintaining mobile phones through charge, credit, together with repair is a pregnant burden. These challenges were inextricably boundary upwards alongside structural inequality experienced past times respondents such every bit poor job weather condition together with unaffordable housing. This study thus proposes a novel theoretical framework combining affordances together with the capability approach, inwards which the maintenance affordances of a engineering scientific discipline are seen to impact straight on individuals’ capability to usage this resources to Pb lives they value.
Special opened upwards access department of Information Technologies & International Development introduced past times Savita Bailur, Silvia Masiero & Jo Tacchi.

Is Global Poverty Framed?
“In my 2nd sub-study, entitled In Search of The Pitiful Victim, the role was to examine alongside what frequency emerging countries are portrayed every bit powerless together with pitiful. In this respect, I did indeed bear out an expended framing analysis alongside regard to 876 tidings reports together with 284 evolution assistance ads released inwards the Netherlands, Flemish region together with England over the concluding years”. The notable results showed that especially NGOs based inwards England build on the depiction of the powerless together with pitiful. While inwards the Netherlands together with Flemish region the latter occurs to a lesser extent, the study does acknowledge that Dutch together with Flemish NGOs together with newspapers nourish the dependency human relationship betwixt emerging nations together with evolution aid: “I can’t works life a causal link, but it’s plausible that this is the argue why only a minor pct of the Dutch together with English linguistic communication population is aware that global poverty is on the decline – when it comes to Flanders, I don’t have got access to related figures”.
Jassir de Windt (one of our electrical flow ComDev students) introduces interesting PhD enquiry from the Netherlands on how poverty is framed inwards tidings media (which seem to confirm Nandita Dogra's classic expose on representations of poor people/poverty)

Academia
Low understanding amid reviewers evaluating the same NIH grant applications
Results showed no understanding amid reviewers regarding the character of the applications inwards either their qualitative or quantitative evaluations. Although all reviewers received the same instructions on how to charge per unit of measurement applications together with format their written critiques, nosotros also found no understanding inwards how reviewers “translated” a given number of strengths together with weaknesses into a numeric rating. It appeared that the outcome of the grant review depended to a greater extent than on the reviewer to whom the grant was assigned than the enquiry proposed inwards the grant. This enquiry replicates the NIH peer-review procedure to examine inwards particular the qualitative together with quantitative judgments of unlike reviewers examining the same application, together with our results have got wide relevance for scientific grant peer review.
Elizabeth L. Pier, Markus Brauer, Amarette Filut, Anna Kaatz, Joshua Raclaw, Mitchell J. Nathan, Cecilia E. Ford together with Molly Carnes alongside an opened upwards access article inwards PNAS that confirms of how powerful biases together with private opinions are no affair how much nosotros endeavor to create the university to a greater extent than 'objective'...
UA Looks at 'Digital Traces' to Help Students
"It's form of similar a sensor that's embedded inwards them, which tin live used for tracking them," Ram said of the card. "It's actually non designed to rail their social interactions, but yous can, because yous have got a timestamp together with location information."
Alexis Blue for the University of Arizona. This sounds scary-and totally luckily non possible withing European Union information protection frameworks...

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